Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-22
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
Mass Meeting at New York Under the Aus
ptces Of The National League.

} was held in Cooper Union tonight to pre-
test agains: the enactment of the pre-
posed coercion measures for Ire
land by the English Parliament
The meeting was held under tn
auspices of the municipal council of tn
Irish National League
Charles A. Dana, editor of the Sun, wa
chairman. He said it might be a. ked wha
Americans had to do with the con
duct of the English government. HI
maintained their right be unquestiouable
He spoke on behalf of broad justice ant
those rights which belong to all men
They were about to violate II
England now the first principles
of liberty by passing a coerc on bill snc
Irish Americans wished toprotest. Amer
leans did so because Irishmen formed 8
great part Ct the citizens Of
the United States. Americans
had the right because they
contributed the chief part Of the money
which enabled that band Of patriots by
/ Parntll to continue the fight for freedom
| Applause
The resolutions passed recite that the
| English government is preparing to intro
! duCe sO-Called crimes bill, whose provis-
! ions are iatend~d 10 suppress constitutions
al liberty in Ireland for political ends
and to abolish freedom of the press
They say the only effect can be the en-
largirg OF race hatred, making more
| difficult the settlement of the Irish Ques-
| ton and tending to produce
social disorder in Ireland. The
citiz-ns of New York in mass
2 III
protest against the contemplated
measures as suicidal 10 the best
interests of England and Ireland,
and q violation Of the recognized
principles of justice.
The resolutions quote Eugland's
greatest Statesman IN saying that
force is no remedy, and declariug home
rule in The establishment of a Parliament
to deal directly with local questions, the
only basis of settling the Irish question.
The resolutions tender sympathy and
promise support to Gladstone and Par
nell, and encourage them to oppose CO.
ercion.
The resolutions are TO be sent to the
two leaders and to the Tory leader, Lord
Salisbury.
Hon. Samuel J. Randall wrote from
Washington urgiEg justice to Ireland as
the only lasting solution to her
troubles and expressing his deep
interest in the question. He said it
was strange in the Nineteenth century
that the English Tories should persist in
policy Of injustice, condemned by his
tory with singular unanimity as 9 crime
against the human lace and blot of
disgrace on the fair name of English
y,t,,
must be done. Mr.. Randall said Glad
stone had no superior as g statesman
The fact that at the close CT long and
brilliant career he led the movement in
favor of home rule for Ireland and insisted
with ali his brilliant intellectual powers
that justice to her was the security Of
Great Britain in the future, was the b. ST
evidence that the Irish question was
lifted out of the fire of lOcsl
ard temporary contentious and
( eaCe and prosperity to the English
speaking races. Ireland. he concluded, |
must have home rule and justice must
madness to refuse to grant what is so
clearly right.
Congressman Bland wrote, expressing
willing to go as far as the foremost in |
anything an American can do to assist
Ireland 10 freedom.
Congressman James 7. Walker of Mis- |
souri, and A. I.npinCott, Chancellor Of !
the University OF Kansas, wrote letters
Of good cheer.
Hon. S. S. Cox wrote from Washington |
He asserted that the great !
hnHn ~ EnnIish akSpC
were as one with Scstland, Ireland and |
Wales in their fight against measures of .
fraud and force.
Roscoe COnkliGg wrOt' ''In heart and |
judgment am in sympathy with the PEG
pie of Ireland, and wholly against any
and every scheme to trampIe on their
rights 1t will be annoying. if
the land of the Magma Charter,
the land of trial By jury aud due process
oflaw, the land OF eight centuries of Par
Lament, the land of Westminster hail,
shall now at this stage of the world turn
around and march back towards barbar-
ism. For a government to uphold Itself
by force against those who
would overthrow it IS one
thing. This is the right Of
but it is a different thing
to make laws oppressive and repugnlnt
to the great majority of those
affected by them and then to violate
he principles of government itself
n order to enforce such laws. Such pro-
;eeding is not resort to the right Of self
defence, nor resort TO auY other
,ignt. 1t is might, brutal T
night. Il cannot be defended
~ the extremity Of the occasion, still Iesa
~ the possession Of power great eusugh
o promise impunity to the acts.
Should the events you apprehen1 come 70
BASS Great Britain may raise q home
question which mankind nay make
question OF its own, so deep sud uniyer-
ri Is the sentiment of liberty That the
wisdom CT Englishmen aud Scotchmeni
nd Irismen may avert all evils is my ar
lent hope and wish" Il
The following cablegram was sent to
dr. Gladstone: "The citizens of
Tew York, in mass meetiog as I
embed, protest against coercion,
eartDy indorse your noble policy and F.,
wish you God speed in your undertaking. {
Signed CHARLES i. DANA"
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